let's keep in mind, his campaign got support. a pro player mechanical pact ran ads in favor. and so, you know, he was kind of set up by the democrats. lou: set up, -- >> in the primary. >> the primary. lou: the primary which was, of course, the thing to do if you're a democrat. they were successful, and the republicans did not have a message. now here we are a year later talking about both amen and a leader of the republican party talking in the most effectively derogatory terms imaginable about their own party and their candidates. i mean go ahead. >> you are taking this way too serious. lou: you know what, you're right. and taking it too seriously. i should not in any way expect that the leader of one major party should have this sense not to use language and the positioning of the party and himself in such a way as to give aid and comfort to the party to which he is opposed politically. right? >> wrong. lou: oh, okay. >> it was an offhand comment on anything else, but republicans do need to deal with this issue and not, you know, be more sensitive, but to be tougher in fig